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What manner of love (potapēn agapēn). Qualitative interrogative as in 2Pe 3:11; Mat 8:27. Only here in John’s writings. Originally of what country or race.
Hath bestowed (dedōken). Perfect active indicative of didōmi, state of completion, “the endowment of the receiver” (Vincent).
That we should be called (hina klēthōmen). Sub-final use of hina with the first aorist passive subjunctive of kaleō, to call or name, as in Mat 2:23.
Children (tekna). As in Joh 1:12 and with an allusion to gegennētai in 1Jo 2:29 in an effort “to restore the waning enthusiasm of his readers, and to recall them to their first love” (Brooke).
And such we are (kai esmen). “And we are.” A parenthetical reflection characteristic of John (kai nun estin in Joh 5:25 and kai ouk eisin in Rev 2:2; Rev 3:9) omitted by Textus Receptus, though, in the old MSS.
Because it knew him not (hoti ouk egnō auton). Second aorist active indicative of ginōskō, precisely the argument in Joh 15:18.